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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: michael97123 who wrote (101436)6/13/2003 4:25:22 PM
From: thames_sider  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
They were parts of the Ottoman empire, and the divisions roughly met those seen now. Central rule was much weaker, though (although brutal when it was noticed). The Ottomans worked through provincial rulers - titles varied, as did the precise degree of autonomy - by 1917 the empire was basically dead anyhow. The Tigris/Euphrates basin was borderland (Ottoman/Persian) and traded hands a lot of times from the Khanate times onwards, so conditions there could have been different.

They've certainly seen enough not to welcome 'foreign' rule, I suspect the last time they had locally originated rulers for any length of time was in the era of the Caliphs, and before that would be before Alexander the Great...
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